Posts Tagged ‘phenotype’

Blood Types

Sunday, December 7, 2008 13:41 3 Comments

Blood type is a special type of inherited trait that is governed by multiple alleles, or gene variants.  Most often referred to as the ABO blood group, these three alleles (A, B, and O) can produce four phenotypes from six genotypes.  Of the three possible alleles, A and B are always dominant to O.  In [...]

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Welcome to In The Gno

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:51 No Comments

Welcome, and thank you for reading this blog – In The Gno – where “gno” is Latin root for knowledge.  Are you a college student researching data or facts for an essay?  Maybe you are an expecting parent – in which case congratulations would be in order – and searching for information regarding heredity or [...]

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